I've been looking around my machine to see where the postman environment variables are stored. I've looked under AppData\Local\Postman, and C:\Users\username\Postman folders, and haven't found a config file that has a last modified date matching my change of environment variables.
I know I can export the environment variables, but I want to search over the current variables. And the exports don't include the current values, unless they replace the initial value, which I want to keep.
There are still ways to get around this. But I want to write a simple command to fetch some current environment variables via cmd, ex using grep.
So is there a way to check for the current environment variables? Where are they stored?
I don't think this will be a successful attempt. Postman seems to use a database, e.g. leveldb, according to information I found here. That will be stored as a binary file on your disk.
You can, however, have a look into the DB by going to View => Developer => Show DevTools and then going to Storage => IndexedDB => variable_sessions => workspace. I can find a current value for an environment variable like this:
But I don't see a way to search in this other than by keys which are uuids and not variable names or values.
All in all, exporting your environments into a text file might be the easiest option.
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I am trying to create a variable in TFS for my task for timestamp in format yyyymmdd. I know that I create a task specifically for this using bash or powershell. However, I am looking to find some existing variable or some way to create this variable without having to setup a task dedicated for itself.
So far I have tried to use $(Date:yyyymmdd) in my variables but it does not put values in it, it uses variable name as is.
For example, C:\Alpha\beta\$(Date:yyyymmdd) instead of C:\Alpha\beta\20191107
Can anyone help me with this ? Thanks a lot
Actually, it is hence not expanded. We do not have this kind of system or environment variable which get current date time and work every. You may have noticed you could use $(Date), however which is only available in the Build number format section. Others such as $(Rev:r) and $(DateOfYear) are the same, do not work outside the BuildNumberFormat-Settings..
Take a look at the list of all system and environment variables here: Predefined variables
As you have pointed out, you need to use a script in a PowerShell Task to set a variable in your build definition, a sample:
$date=$(Get-Date -Format 'yyyymmdd');
Write-Host "##vso[task.setvariable variable=time]$date"
Then you can use $(time) in your subsequent build tasks.
More details also take a look at this similar question: VSO(TFS) - get current date time as variable
https://dlang.org/library/std/process/environment.html allows getting a particular environment variable.
But I see no way to get all environment variables or the list of all environment variable names.
What is the right way to retrieve the full environment in D?
In fact, I want to pass some environment variables to a child process. What is the right way to do it?
There is no need to get all variables to pass to a child process; that is the default. If you are using the std.process library, you can pass null for environment to keep the existing one entirely, or a set of just the keys and values you want to change to get just them changed, and the rest inherited.
I want to rename file in Jenkins so that a file name would contain a timestamp. I installed zentimestamp plugin and tried to use it:
SET ts=${BUILD_TIMESTAMP}
ren file_name.zip file_name_%ts%.zip
but what i get is
file_name_${BUILD_TIMESTAMP}.zip
I got Date and Time Pattern in Global Properties set to: yyyyMMddHHmm.
Can someone please explain me how to use BUILD_TIMESTAMP properly?
It looks like your code is from a Microsoft Batch file? If that's the case you'd reference BUILD_TIMESTAMP like this:
ren file_name.zip file_name_%BUILD_TIMESTAMP%.zip
BUILD_TIMESTAMP should be an environment variable if it's being injected correctly by the plugin. How you reference environment variables changes depending on what scripting solution is being used (e.g. batch, bash, ant, gradle, etc).
This would be very useful for storing API keys or other sensitive information. From what I understand, you can use config files locally but they won't work on meteor.com, but I heard a rumor that environment variables were soon to be supported, or are already as of a recent release, but I can't find any examples.
Can someone provide an example of how to retrieve a value from an environment variable or some other safe location?
You can actually access the process object to retrieve environment variables in Meteor. In essence, just do the same as in this solution
After some thought, storing them all in a .js file inside an object literal, adding that file to the .gitignore, and checking in a corresponding .js.sample file with dummy or blank values would do the trick.
There's a much better way to handle environment variables. If you come from Ruby on Rails you're used to setting your environment variables in your .ENV file or in your config/application.yml file.
Meteor handles environment variables in a similar way.
Create settings.json file
Inside your server folder in your project, create a file and name it settings.json. Add this file to your gitignore file.
Inside this JSON file, you can save any environment variables you need.
{
"facebookAppId": "6666667527666666",
"facebookAppSecret": "00004b20dd845637777321cd3c750000",
"amazonS3Bucket": "bucket-name"
}
Loading the environment variables
To use these values inside your app during runtime, start Meteor with a --settings option flag.
$ meteor run --settings server/settings.json
Use the values
To use the values, just call the Meteor.settings object.
ServiceConfiguration.configurations.upsert(
{ service: "facebook" },
{
$set: {
appId: Meteor.settings.facebookAppId,
secret: Meteor.settings.facebookAppSecret
}
}
);
That's all there is to it! Keep your settings safe, and do not commit your keys.
Basically, I know I can go through my control panel and modify the path variable. But, I'm wondering if there is a way to through batch programming have a temporary path included? That way it is only used during that batch file execution. I don't want to have people go in and modify their path variables just to use my batch file.
Just like any other environment variable, with SET:
SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\whatever\else
If you want to have a little safety check built in first, check to see if the new path exists first:
IF EXIST c:\whatever\else SET PATH=%PATH%;c:\whatever\else
If you want that to be local to that batch file, use setlocal:
setlocal
set PATH=...
set OTHERTHING=...
#REM Rest of your script
Read the docs carefully for setlocal/endlocal , and have a look at the other references on that site - Functions is pretty interesting too and the syntax is tricky.
The Syntax page should get you started with the basics.
There is an important detail:
set PATH="C:\linutils;C:\wingit\bin;%PATH%"
does not work, while
set PATH=C:\linutils;C:\wingit\bin;%PATH%
works. The difference is the quotes!
UPD also see the comment by venimus
That's right, but it doesn't change it permanently, but just for current command prompt.
If you wanna to change it permanently you have to use for example this:
setx ENV_VAR_NAME "DESIRED_PATH" /m
This will change it permanently and yes, you can overwrite it in another batch script.